Runner and the Thermodynamics catch up with their past As sagas of rock-and-roll near-misses go, there's a cinematic quality to Runner and the Thermodynamics, who in the early 2000s channeled their reverence for '70s arena rock into a power-pop detonation that briefly cracked the glass ceiling of the music biz.

Photos: Rock 'n' Roll Rumble Finals Bow Thayer and the Perfect Trainwreck, Garvy J, Motherboar, and the Grown Up Noise compete at the finals for the Rock n' Roll Rumble at T.T. the Bear's Place on April 20, 2012.

Runner and the Thermodynamics catch up with their past As sagas of rock-and-roll near-misses go, there's a cinematic quality to Runner and the Thermodynamics, who in the early 2000s channeled their reverence for '70s arena rock into a power-pop detonation that briefly cracked the glass ceiling of the music biz.

Photos: Rock 'n' Roll Rumble Finals Bow Thayer and the Perfect Trainwreck, Garvy J, Motherboar, and the Grown Up Noise compete at the finals for the Rock n' Roll Rumble at T.T. the Bear's Place on April 20, 2012.

52 ways to leave 2009 Your usual lackadaisical approach to New Year's Eve — just see what happens and go with the flow — is not going to cut it this year. Sure, the end of this decade may not have the same kind of new-millennium pressure riding on it as the last one, but the plunge into 2010 is a milestone nonetheless.

5 for '10 I love baby bands, and I hope the ones I mention here don't mind my calling them that.

The Organ Beats go on At the risk of indulging in speculation, I'm going to presume that Noelle LeBlanc has experienced her fair share of the soul-extinguishing nihilism and corruption that live at the bottom of the music industry's digestive tract.